Pete Connolly wrote:

The '$$', is that a shortcut to the current process name? I couldn't (immediately) find a reference to it, hence the lazy question.


It expands to the process ID of the shell.

In a () subshell, it expands to the process ID of the current shell, not the subshell.

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Geir A. Myrestrand
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